AB2: Bill Text

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2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE

2005 Assembly BILL 2

January 11, 2005 - Introduced by Representatives Gard and Huebsch. Referred to Committee on Rules.

AB2,1,4 An Act to repeal 13.52; and to amend 13.093 (2) (b) and 13.56 (1) of the statutes; relating to: eliminating the Joint Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions and increasing the membership of the Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, a bill that relates to a tax exemption must be referred to the Joint Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions (committee), and any such bill may not considered further by either house of the legislature until the committee has submitted a report setting forth an opinion on the bill's legality, the bill's fiscal effect, and the bill's desirability as a matter of public policy. This bill eliminates this committee and its current law functions.

In addition, the bill expands the membership of the Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules from five senators and five representatives to the assembly to seven senators and seven representatives to the assembly.

For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

AB2, s. 1 Section 1. 13.093 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB2,2,9 13.093 (2) (b) Executive budget bills introduced under s. 16.47 (1) are exempt from the fiscal estimate requirement under par. (a) but shall, if they contain a provision affecting a public retirement fund or providing a tax exemption, be analyzed as to those provisions by the respective joint survey committee. If such a bill contains a provision providing a tax exemption, the bill shall be simultaneously referred to the joint survey committee on tax exemptions and the joint committee on finance. The report of the joint survey committee on tax exemptions shall be prepared within 60 days of introduction for bills introduced under s. 16.47 (1) on retirement systems.

AB2, s. 2 Section 2. 13.52 of the statutes is repealed.

AB2, s. 3 Section 3. 13.56 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB2,2,17 13.56 (1) Creation. There is created a joint committee for review of administrative rules, consisting of 5 7 senators and 5 7 representatives to the assembly appointed as are the members of standing committees in their respective houses from the majority and minority political parties in each house. In making the appointments, each house shall designate a cochairperson. The committee shall meet at the call of one of its cochairpersons.

AB2,2,18 (End)